Carry on inside of your heart

Under the brine you won't notice the dark

Can stone and steel and horses heels

Ever explain the way you feel?

From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe, 

I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide

Oh the heavy water how it enfolds

The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow

Always, always, always the sea

Brilliantine mortality

So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete

And you're draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet

My soul, she cried, I thought you'd died

Amid fumes of formaldehyde

You have been gone for so long

I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide

I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide 

Oh the heavy water how it enfolds

The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow

Always, always, always the sea

Brilliantine mortality

When this Corpus Christic isle became a land of ocean blue 

Again, she cried, you turned my eye,

At mentions of, no matter why,

And in the end, an August sun,

And one by one by one by one...

Oh the heavy water how it enfolds

The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow

Always, always, always the sea

Brilliantine mortality